a;lsdf wrote:
I have the air relax system and it works awesome, and for half the price of Normatec
Same here. I scoured the site here for info on alternatives before I purchased, but it’s pretty limited, and the few threads feel like reps from one company or the other are in there spamming the boards for their product.
I love the air relax boots. The jury is still out on if sequential compression has any real measurable benefit, but subjectively, I do feel better after having the boots on for a while. A massage was running me $60 per visit, and so breaking even with the air relax boots (I purchased for $410 shipped to my door) won’t take long. Probably 98% as good as a massage and the air relax boots are about 99% of the way there when comparing to normatec. Normatec wanted $1300 and these boots come so close it just didn’t make sense to spend the extra. A buddy of mine has the normatec pulse, and it has 5 chambers to the air relax’s 4, and does a little smoother job transitioning from one chamber to the next. Normatec will also inflate slightly slower and feels just a little bit more methodical. Overall not worth it in my opinion. The markup on the nofmatec boots must be MASSIVE. Air relax is probably slightly cheaper to make, but I am sure they are marking up theirs product much less than their competitors just by looking at quality amongsf the products and their respective price tags. Let us know what you decide!